2026 Featured Artist: Nell Pierce

Nell Pierce (they/them) is a collage artist, community muralist and teaching artist who uses art as a tool for healing and shifting narrative power. Nell has been a teaching artist for over fifteen years, supporting people in schools, community centers, prisons, and other settings to shape personal and collective narratives through visual art and theater. They currently teach art courses for adults out of the studio they share with their collective, Studio Thalo. As a muralist, they've collaborated on over twenty-five murals and fifty live paintings that aim to amplify social justice movements. In their personal practice, they’ve created paintings and collages on commission since 2010 inspired by clients’ personal stories. Since 2019, they’ve focused on Q’llage, a project engaging their queer community through interviews, workshops, and large-scale collages exploring how the strategies that support queer folks to stay true to themselves are mirrored in other parts of nature.